Yahoo Movies Bridget Jones 4 is coming next February – here's all you need to know
Bridget Jones 4 – aka Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – has unveiled its first trailer ahead of its release in cinemas next February.
Loyal fans of the hapless-romantic icon were overjoyed when news of a fourth movie was announced in April 2024, with Renée Zellweger signed on to star in another screen adventure.
Fast forward to August 2024 and filming officially wrapped on the new movie, with a Bridget Jones 4 teaser trailer debuting exclusively in cinemas in the same month, while Hugh Grant has been teasing the "very sad" new movie.
Now that we've all seen a trailer, here's everything you need to know about Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
Bridget Jones 4 release date: When will Mad About the Boy be released in cinemas?
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will be released in UK cinemas on February 14, 2025 – ie Valentine's Day next year.
In the US, it will be released exclusively on Peacock on February 13, but there will be select previews in UK cinemas on that same day.
Filming took place from May to August 2024.
Bridget Jones 4 trailer: Watch the Mad About the Boy trailer here!
As mentioned above, the first teaser trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy exclusively debuted in cinemas in August 2024 with screenings of It Ends With Us.
This one-minute trailer has never made its way online, but we were treated to the first full trailer for Bridget Jones 4 on November 12, 2024.
If you missed it above, check it out below:
Bridget Jones 4 cast: Who's coming back for Mad About the Boy?
There'd be no Bridget Jones without Renée Zellweger who is coming back in her defining role.
The fourth film also sees Hugh Grant back and reprising his role as Daniel Cleaver after not appearing in the third film due to script issues.
There seems to be no script problems this time round, with Grant publicly praising the "very good script" for Bridget Jones 4, deeming it "very moving as well as funny". However, he has also said that he "wrote some scenes" too.
"I loved the script – it made me cry, and I wanted to help with this one," he explained. "But really there's no part for Daniel Cleaver in it at all. They wanted him in it, and in the end, they'd done something I wasn't crazy about."
We didn't know whether Colin Firth would be in it as a result of Mark Darcy's off-screen death, but the first trailer confirmed that Firth had filmed scenes for the new movie.
Fans will also see the familiar faces of Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones back as Bridget's batty parents in the fourth movie, plus her three trusty confidantes Sharon, Jude and Tom (played respectively by Sally Phillips, Shirley Henderson and James Callis).
Sarah Solemani will also return as Bridget's newer friend Miranda – a news presenter and Bridget's former colleague at Hard News who was introduced in the third movie.
Bridget Jones's Baby star Emma Thompson is additionally back as Doctor Rawlings in the fourth movie.
The British acting talent keeps coming with confirmed new cast members for Bridget Jones 4 including Doctor Strange's Chiwetel Ejiofor and One Day's Leo Woodall as Bridget's two new love interests.
Other notable new cast additions include The Last of Us's Nico Parker, I Hate Suzie actor Leila Farzad, Now You See Me star Isla Fisher and Josette Simon of Anatomy of a Scandal fame.
Bridget Jones 4 plot: What is Mad About the Boy about?
With the first trailer, we got the official synopsis for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, confirming that it would follow the plot of Helen Fielding's book of the same name.
"As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added 'Singletons', 'Smug-Marrieds' and 'f**kwittage' into the global lexicon," it reads.
"Bridget's ability to triumph despite adversity led her to finally marry top lawyer Mark Darcy and to become the mother of their baby boy. Happiness at last. But in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan.
"She's now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver.
"Pressured by her Urban Family – Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynaecologist Dr Rawlings – to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she's soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man.
"Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son's rational-to-a-fault science teacher."
Woodall is playing the "younger man" known as Roxster in the book, while Ejiofor is playing the teacher Mr Wallaker.
Director Michael Morris has explained that he wanted the new movie to show a side of Bridget that "we hadn't seen before", adding that it's a "comedy of grief".
"[It's] very much a comedy, very much celebrating life in all the joyfulness that Bridget brings, but life, you can't ignore the hard bits, you just can't. It's going to happen to everybody, so how does Bridget deal with it?," he continued.
"How do you attack moving on essentially with the kind of Bridget verve and joyfulness? And I think in that way this is a rom-com, but a real-life rom-com is what I wanted to make."
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will be released in UK cinemas on February 14, 2025. The first three Bridget Jones movies are available to stream now on Netflix.
You Might Also Like
